Each library is an adventure. An added adventure today was driving to the Kansas City Kansas Public Library. I loved seeing the KC skyline and bridges, but I'm a small town girl and driving by myself makes me nervous.
The KCK library has the microfilm locked up and four at a time are 'checked out' to you. The printer on the reader didn't like any of my dimes so the librarian 'keyed' it to print and I just paid at the desk. I thought that was very friendly of her. Ten cents a copy. More than reasonable!
I don't know if the microfilm was really that different or if my hurting neck (woke up with a crick in my neck) made it seem different. Usually when I get microfilm the first date is the first paper on the film. This film had the last date on the film first. The joke is on me as I was excited when the librarian handed me the rolls to see that I needed either the first or second date on the all of the microfilmed checked out. But that was not the case, I had to 'fast forward' to close to the end of the roll. Oh well.
The library had some cemetery books, phone books, directories and some other genealogy books. I found a piece of data in a cemetery book and then I needed to go as I parked in a two-hour parking spot.
I don't know where I was at in Kansas City as I don't know the area very well. Isn't that a comforting thought?
On my way back I exited the interstate on the wrong exit and ended up at the railroad tracks. It made me nervous to drive under the interstate on a single lane with a train track in the middle of the lane! I had to take a 'sharp right' to get back on the interstate and find a spot to get off and turn around so I could take the 'real' exit.
I'm glad I found the 'sharp right' road as otherwise I would have been going up the down ramp to get on the interstate hoping a highway patrolman wasn't around to see me!
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